Job 3:11
“Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?”
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Cross-References
“Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.”
“And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!”
“But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.”
“By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.”
“Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.”